With the information overload and sheer monotony of classifying it makes me wonder if this was actually what I put myself through in 2022 and a little bit of 2023. Is this really all there is, to fancy note-taking? An uphill battle of so many other people's thoughts and current events, without projects, without a context of use? No wonder people burn themselves out on this stuff. I must've come close, when I made my exunt in October 2022. (Which, coincidentally, was about the time I wanted to focus more on my courses at De Anza.) It seems to me the best way to make a sense of this much is to, again, follow my heart and my current interests; and relate them to past interests and knowledge as needed; and scrap all the rest of the information, until I really need them or remember them myself. I do not go into a library wishing I could read a bookshelf, book by book by book. Why should I do the same with my browser history?
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391